Dear Euphrosynos Cafe' Members,
I am about to inform all of you of a very great peril that is about to insinuate itself into the Church. And this peril is about to moor within our own American shores.
Russia's Fr. Gregory Lurye of recent ROAC defrocking news, is a 'punk' enthusiast. 'Punk' ideology is the very essence of who Fr. Gregory Lurye is and what he wishes to invade the Orthodox Church with -namely, his 'punk'-self, and his 'punk'-philosophy.
All of Fr. Lurye's theories like "Name worshiping," and "Christ's Voluntary Death as Suicide," are only smoke and mirrors for his real agenda: To root himself & punk-orthodoxy into the Apostolic succession of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Fr. Panteleimon [Htm/Hocna] made his first 'Tour Guide' to Russia this past September 4th to September 25th, 2005. The 'pilgrims' were sent home after 10 days, but Fr. Panteleimon stayed on.
Fr. Panteleimon's 'Pilgrimage' then took on a more clandestine aspect: secret talks with punk-proponent Fr. Gregory Lurye.
Fr. Lurye is now confederate with Fr. Panteleimon and is planning with Fr. Panteleimon to be secretly-ordained to the episcopacy by 2 of Fr.Panteleimon's bishops, [most likely Met. Moses and the ailing and unsuspecting Met. Ephraim] this November 2005 at Fr. Panteleimon's Holy Apostles' Skete in Maine.
For Fr. Panteleimon, a take-over of ROAC in the USA --- with a Fr. Lurye takeover of ROAC in Russia --- would be an "I'm okay, you're okay" arrangement.
Fr. Lurye made it quite clear in his response to Vladimir Moss' "First Open Letter to Gregory Lurye' "[emphasis on "First"], that he will force ROAC Met. Valentine into retirement, and he [Lurye] does not at all recognize his [Lurye's] defrocking.
Oh yeah? We 'recognize' you now, don't we, 'punk-proponent' Fr. Gregory Lurye with your co-conspirator, Fr. Panteleimon of HTM/HOCNA? Your secret plan is all out in the open now isn't it?
And we know, yes we know, that like Arius, Stalin and Sid Vicious, all the enemies of Christ and His Holy Church, shall be confounded and clothed with shame.
Nathaniel Kapner/Psalm 143:1
October 5/22 2005
26 Martyrs of Zogoprou Monastery